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Saw that last week. An old high school pal played the waiter in the scene where *ahem* someone punches someone. He had some funny lines. Dan was an old-school man. No surprise he'd have a picture of Fergie. It was a different kind of movie; real-world dialogue/story. Poke at the new-business era where people who have no idea what they're doing or saying are put in charge. I liked it.

The thing I'm having trouble believing about the story is that a bunch of teens/twenty year-olds were actually aware of and driving the speed limit.

This is simply a 20-question written driving test, not in how people actually drive.

So, watching it again tonight on the re-run. -The scene with Jin and Michael on the raft.... Jin has a handcuff on the hand most people wear their watch; kind of symbolic of how his life as a slave to his f-i-l (probably not a coincidence that the Black Rock had slaves in shackles too). He gives Michael the watch; a gift of time.... I don't know, but ever since I read The Sound and The Fury, that passage runs through my mind every time I put my watch on. Faulkner was probably the greatest American writer. - I listened to what the bird screached again, and I couldn't make out 'Hurley!' but my hearing is going.... - "Boone was a scrifice that the island demanded." Locke is evil. - The scene with the three women was a little Shakespearian; I reference particularly Richard III and the "litany of curses" that all of the queens launch against the title villian. Each of those women have/had a family member on the island, which makes them unique in that regard. Given that, this scene had a purpose. Shannon's brother "died heroically," Jin is risking his life on the raft on the chance he can hail a rescue for everyone else, Aaron (or is it Erin?)... you fill in the blank.

Or a Mercedes 500s.... My pal took a picture of the tachometer at 245kph (~125mph?). That was meant generally, which was pretty apparent. Or not. This is an Internet message board. Some, all, many, more, lots, few... Did you major in Rhetoric or something? And I would respectfully submit that Europeans take driving way more seriously than we do. That, and those silly zigzag lines marking the edge of the road. Do they expect people to drive in lightning-bolt pattern?

Huh? I'm just pointing out a fact in the different ways things are done. If you think American drivers are courteous, you either don't drive or you're one of the a-hole drivers. I have a dozen relatives across the country who drive as a job -- big rigs, trucks, mail trucks, and I'm regaled by stories of people who blow through stop signs and flip them off. Happens to me too. Where's the link of the story yesterday where most people would fail their driver's test if they take it again? People here don't know how to drive, and combine that with road rage. Uhp! Saying people need to calm down and drive responsibly = America sucks? Nice logic.

I don't think it's a "young man thing" as much as it is an American thing. I was talking about this last night over dinner at a friends'. No one in this country wants to be passed by -- we're too egotistical. On the autobahn, people don't take it as a personal affront that someone is going faster; they just move over and let the other person pass. What should you have done? All that so you could be one car in front of them at the next stop light? You could have been patient and driven the speed limit. You'll get to your destination, what, 2 minutes later?

And that skeptic/cynic attitude is the same reason why there's very little inside information. The boo birds here once drove away a woman who was likely related to Dwight Adams.

Yep. That's what the doctor said I had. Basically, a staph infection.

And if they ask him next week, he'll say it did happen. There's enough blame to go around for a lot of groups involved. Who cares, except the guy who gets rich by printing the Quran on rolls of toilet paper? (I'm claiming a copyright for this idea.) A three-sentence story didn't make people go out and kill; they were doing it before, they'll do it again. Melville isn't responsible for putting whale species on the endangered list.

No, just that a large number of them either won't vote, as in Clinton/Dole, or will vote for a third party anti-everything candidate who in reality doesn't have a snowball's chance. JimBob, There are conservatives. There are liberals. There are Republicans. There are Democrats. The first two are about fiscal matters and tax philosophy, the second pair are about social matters. I'm a conservative Democrat. I realize it's a force of habit, but the labels are not interchangable. I know a lot of Repubs and right-leaning types who say that McCain doesn't impress them. As I hear, he's got some explaining to do about his time as a POW.

Click on the "Track Flight" tab at the top. Under Flight Number type in '815' and press 'Track.' Click on 815 in the first column (there's no arrow that shows up but just click it). A seating chart is shown. At the immediate bottom of it, click on the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 in that order and wait. Is this a fan-site that put this together as a red herring or is this something actually sanctioned by the producers/creators?

It seemed like an awful lot of blood spewage on the cockpit glass to be talons. Some places are saying that in the scene with the bird, that it was shrieking out "Hurley!" as it was flying off. Weird stuff, man. Weird stuff. I'll have to pay attention to all of these little things on Saturday night's re-run.

Am I the only one who thinks the ® sign after a name on lists like that is an entirely apt decription?

And back to the original point of this thread, the administration today promised $50M in aid to the Palestinians. And they're looking to give them $150M via Congress. A PLO flack says it's a "modest beginning" of aid. Well, isn't that nice? Haven't heard much about Abbas since he took office, but that probably falls in the 'no news is good news' category. You just have to hope this money doesn't filter down to people blowing themselves up, but it probably will.

Nominating Jeb Bush in '08 or any other year will ensure a Dem victory. He alienated the evangelicals b/c he didn't send in the National Guard to 'save' Teri Schiavo, he's got a 5-time cokehead for a daughter (and it will dreg up how she's received favoritism in the courts b/c of daddy) not to mention whatever other skeletons he's got in the closet. I hope they do run him. There's been some buzz recently about Cheney running. Agreed about where the Dems should get their nominee from. Some names are Vilsack, Richardson.... There will be others who enter the picture. And I hope Clark runs again and gets in as VP. Anyone with better appeal than Kerry and Edwards.

Pardon my English, but HUH?? That was not an attack on the person, it was an attack on your being blatently incorrect with your facts on scientific, legalistic and moralistic grounds. Your gross misrepresentation of what race is with 'purity' and your belief that 'racial intermarriage' should be outlawed is straight out of the KKK handbook. Most people call that hate, yes. You're free to say what you want, but to others who consider what you say an attack in itself, they can't respond? Don't be surprised when people lash out at you with facts and STFUs (because that's the only way to reason with insufferable idiots before they go on your ignore list). Now, where'd that :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: smiley go when we really need it...? $50 says you're banned by the end of next week, and I won't be disappointed when you're out of the genepool.

I challenge Pac Man/Kurt Godel to submit to a genetic roots test here. If he thinks there is such a thing as a purebred human, boy, he's got another thing coming!

You'd do well to read "The Seven Daughters of Eve" by Bryan Sykes. He found out some really interesting things about lineages by using DNA sequences. Most people who actually believe in the concept of race go by outward appearances that belie any actual make-up. "We are all a complete mixture." But go ahead; keep spewing your hate based on what is a social phenomena.

So basically, they'd cramp her style. Probably a much better situation than her actually having the kids and raising them, from the sounds of it. It was her choice. No one ever said that people have to make sensical decisions. But to be honest, I don't want to be in a place where my decisions are based on other people's ethos; let me make my own mistakes and live with the consequences. People in this country really have to stop worrying about and delving into other people's personal problems and start dealing with the ones that actually matter in the macrocosm.

Add to that there is no gene for height. It's a combination of several different traits. But I must be wrong, b/c no one is as smart as Pac Man. Natural selection merely says that the most advantageous traits will, over time, become more prevelent, but not that all others will disappear. The statistical curve can get very steep, but it's not very likely that blond hair, blue eyes or a dimpled chin will be wiped out of the gene pool, especially in a population as big as humans. Nature loves variation and frequent turnover. I didn't read all of the posts, but how in the hell did it get from We shouldn't give foereign aid to talking about genetics. Just goes to show the common devolution of these topics.

I was working on a lakeside stone wall last fall and in Nov. I got a very bad infection in my nose and on my upper lip, tho I didn't really know what it was until the ER on Night Three when the pain was just unbearable. If lip size is what makes Mick Jagger so desirable to the ladies, well, I was twice as sexy as Sir Mick. I was wearing gloves, but I guess you just have to wash your hands very well. It really isn't anything to screw around with. We're a society that has become too 'smart' for its own good. Thanks, antibacterial soaps, sponges, countertops, etc. that leave only the superbugs crawling all over hell's half-acre b/c they reproduce and spread exponentially. And it's nothing that just one person can do anything about.

There's some really good discussion here. J.Coli, I can actually dig your reading, and I don't think there's a hole based on the 'American' accent. Look at the space shuttle crews. Very plausible. Absoltuely. That music was a great accompaniment to those scenes. Just a very simple, hard pound on the piano keys and the reverberations. It was really beautiful. They employ a full orchestra. And it pays off in the affect. As Hurley was walking back with the dynamite group, he kept repeating the Numbers. I took this as him invoking them for good luck (they won him the lottery...) and then he finds them on the hatch and if he didn't sense it before, now he knows something is horribly freaky about this place. Callous remark of the night: "Dude, you've got a piece of Arzt on you."

Well, they thought blowing the hatch might save them. Fear makes people behave differently. And it's understandable that they would slow down and be mega careful after Arzt was blown up. Not a slip-up of the writers; it's their story. I don't necessarily think that the Others stole Walt b/c he's SuperWalt. The people on the island are baby/youth-crazy. Kind of like our culture is that leads to people stealing others' kids. And yeah, I think Ethan was one of the Others sent to infiltrate the Lostaways. But on the island, why do they need to steal other people's babies? To keep up the population for members of their group? If anyone's seen the movie "Waterworld" they're kind of that ilk. I don't think it's that the monster can be invisible. It is invisible. Then again, it does have the Predator heat wave thing going on, so maybe you're right. Did you see it inhaling and exhaling the black smoke? And what slothrop said with hot air currents? Dude, no way. The sheer schematics of something that actually controls that? It ripped out trees. His other theory about the hatch being a submarine is a distinct possibility. The camera didn't pan that far down. But the stairs below the first few rungs are broken. Meant to say that about Sawyer. He'd better not be shot badly; he's turned into one of my favorite characters. They're about 15 miles from the island. The Others guy said "What are you guys doing out here?" If they wanted Walt so badly, they would have gotten him on the beach. I think it may just be a diversion to get them to go back, b/c they don't want anyone discovering the island. There's a repeat of the whole two hours on Saturday night at 8. I'll be watching. Whew! Best show on TV.

If you want originality and good shows, ABC has brought along some very good programming and there looks to be a few very good non-'cop-drama' series next fall, too. Whoever's in charge over there is doing an awesome job. I don't think it's that Hollywood/entertainment industry is out of ideas, it's just that there's a big nostalgia kick. That happens during and after a time filled with uncertainty --- as a people, you look back and adopt things from when tiems were good. All of the ones listed by Grant are either from the American Pastoral '50s/'60s or the Big '80s. There's nothing wrong with nostalgia, just that it's completely taken over the culture to the point where little is advancing. And most of it is really crappy in quality, with people getting money thrown at them b/c they're sexually attractive according to whoever determines that. W/in 10 years, the American economy will be little more than retail and pornography and it will be one endless circle-jerk.